Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective

by Lowell Edmunds

Book Overview

It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth-the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell Edmunds shows that certain Sanskrit, Welsh, and Old Irish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691165122
• ISBN13: 9780691165127
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.3"